Tagged: lent

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The Benefits of Not Complaining

For Lent this year, I decided to give up complaining, playing online chess, and watching chess videos. (Spoiler alert: I failed miserably.) In the beginning, the no complaining bit felt easier than when I...

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What is complaining, anyway?

Three weeks into Lent, I can tell you that giving up complaining is much harder than giving up dessert. I can also tell you that some people don’t seem to understand what I meant...

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What I’m giving up for Lent

Even though I essentially grew up going to church, Lent was never a big part of my upbringing. That is to say, I never went to church on Ash Wednesday and got ash on...